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On 15 November, the State Secretary of Education, Culture and Science, Halbe Zijlstra, presented the tables and figures book "Science, Technology & Innovation Indicators 2011" (WTI2) to the House of Representatives, compiled by Dialogic in collaboration with the Norwegian NIFU using the data and expertise of the Leiden CWTS.
The report should be seen as a follow-up to the eight reports that the Dutch Science and Technology Observatory (NOWT) released between 1992 and 2010 under the title "Science and Technology Indicators". The publication answers questions such as: Are investments in the public knowledge infrastructure in the Netherlands increasing or decreasing compared to other countries? Has the percentage of female professors and associate professors actually risen? Which are the most (technologically) R&D-intensive companies in the Netherlands? Are Dutch companies now collaborating more or less with universities and other public knowledge institutions compared to companies in other countries? In which scientific fields do researchers in the Netherlands truly excel?
Simultaneously, the data has also been published on the internet through an interactive website: www.wti2.nl. This website should be viewed as a replacement for this one-time report and will be further developed in the coming months. Replacing the publication with a website offers many advantages: (i) the website is up-to-date, as it will be updated as soon as new data becomes available, (ii) we can display more data on a website than in a report, and (iii) the website is interactive, allowing for the manipulation of data.
Additionally, Dialogic will release a biennial analytical report using the data material on www.wti2.nl or additional collected data material. It is intended that these reports, the first of which will appear in autumn 2012, will have a more analytical character than in the past, focusing on important policy themes. See also our website.